On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Michael Havens wrote:

> maybe it was somewhere else on the drive and did 'find / S*' (most of my
> music starts with an S as in Styx and Stevie Nicks and Swing) but after
> that long search that proved to be fruitless. So where could all that

The S* would be expanded and place don the command-line for find. Probably
not what you intended.

Use:  find / -name "S*"

But anyways, to find out big files, I often use find.

find / -size +3500 -ls



 Jeremy C. Reed

 	  	 	 BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links
	  	 	 http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/

---------------------------------------------------
PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change  you mail settings:
http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss